From: keld@keldix.com
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329105947.GA28167@www5.open-std.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FA4490.30402@redhat.com>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:02:08AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 01:55 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>
> > strftime() now implements a %OB format specifier which generates an
> > alternative month name. For the languages which require both nominative
> > and genitive case of the month names it is expected that it outputs
> > the alternative month name which should be a nominative (sic!) case
> > or whatever is appropriate when formatting the month names standalone
> > (without a day). For those languages %B will return the basic month
> > name but from now it is expected to be a genitive case or whatever is
> > appropriate when formatting full dates (including both day and month).
> > This means that all applications using %B to retrieve the month
> > name standalone should use %OB from now. For those languages which
> > do not use different (nominative and genitive) cases of the month
> > name or do not yet have their locales updated %OB will retrieve
> > the same string as %B so moving to %OB will be harmless as long
> > as the version of glibc which supports this feature is used.
>
> What's the status here on the POSIX side? It's marked as Accepted in
> the tracker, but the changes apparently haven't been folded into
> subsequent editions.
I would also like to add this to ISO 30112. Do you have text in standardese
that could be added to the text?
best regards
keld
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 0:55 Rafal Luzynski
2016-03-29 9:02 ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-29 10:59 ` keld [this message]
2016-11-04 13:36 ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-05 10:42 ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-03-29 14:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-03-29 23:23 ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-03-29 14:31 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2016-03-29 23:31 ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-06-01 10:42 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2016-06-01 21:51 ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-06-01 22:20 ` Paul Eggert
2016-06-01 23:54 ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-06-02 7:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-06-03 7:08 ` Rafal Luzynski
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